silverhead

I should probably elaborate on my earlier response for a more complete understanding.... In the case of using POD Go Edit your computer is actually not involved at all with any audio. The Edit program and the POD Go device exchange command and control data over USB - not audio. All audio continues to be produced by the POD Go device. Think of your computer running the Edit program as a remote controller providing a more useful user interface. The fact that the POD Go device becomes your computer’s soundcard is important to understand when you want to play along with backing tracks or other audio that actually is being produced by your computer (YouTube, Spotify, etc.). That’s when the audio from the two devices (POD Go and computer) are mixed in the POD Go and monitored through the POD Go audio outputs.

There are no dumb questions. Just dumb people for being reluctant to ask! ;-)

Your speakers/monitors need to be connected to the POD Go. Are they? You won’t hear anything from the laptop’s internal speakers because the POD Go becomes your computer’s soundcard when connected via USB. Your internal mic and speakers are bypassed and all audio is sent to/from the PC through the POD Go.

Depends on whether you want a mono or stereo signal from the speakers. That might also depend on whether the mixing board has the capacity to give you two channels. If you want a mono signal, check whether the Helix device indicates L/Mono or just L on the output jack. If the former, the stereo signal will be blended and forced to mono by the device itself; if the latter you will have to force it to mono yourself in the preset configuration.

No, there isn’t.

And now you have two good patches that you’ve ‘spent a good portion of today’ creating. Is it worth backing them up using POD Go Edit, or are you content with the possibility that you might lose them irretrievably? It’s a computer, after all - and they sometimes don’t start up properly at the most unexpected times. Or you mistakenly overwrite files. Or.... pick your glitch.... -:) It’s easy. Download and install POD Go Edit and use the Export feature on the two presets. The feature is under the File menu. Easy to find and a simple mouse click to activate.

Yes, thanks

Yes, everything in the Firehawk app cloud is free. If you can access it without being asked to pay for it’s free!

Glad to hear it’s already working out for you. You might want to look into the Export and Import features of HX Edit so that you will be able to back up your tone masterpieces as you create them! No need to use it for anything else until you’re ready, but backups are good.

Following your link in the previous post I checked the release notes. At the end of he info on Artist presets it lists the Helix devices that provide these presets. The HX Stomp is not on the list. So the .his file is correct - no Artist presets.

Are you using the latest version of HX Edit (v3.0)?

Thee are a few considerations here, depending on what you are trying to accomplish. First, the M20d is not designed to be an audio interface for general DAW purposes. It should be recognized by GarageBand for audio input purposes, but only to record the stereo mix of all M20d inputs. In other words, you should be able to record the same mix that appears at the M20d main outputs. You will not be able to record the individual input channels (dry or wet) onto separate DAW tracks. Further, the latency between the M20d and your computer/DAW is too great to do anything with the recorded track on playback. You won’t be able, for instance, to add a track to the recording using the M20d with any sort of tempo sync. You should be able to record to the SD card if properly formatted (Class 10 SD, FAT32, max 64Gb I think). Only one digital channel is available at a time - USB drive, SD, or USB to PC. So if trying to record to the SD card or USB drive make sure only one of them is connected to the M20d and disconnect it from your PC. Once you’ve recorded the individual channel tracks onto the SD card you can then import them as individual tracks from the card into your DAW for further plug-in processing but, as described earlier, you won’t be able to effectively add or re-record tracks using the M20d. Consult the Recording chapter in the manual for more details. For further help here please describe what you are trying to do in more detail. What is your purpose in recording?

To duplicate/ copy a preset you SAVE it to a new location, as described in manual page 11. If you’re not sure where the ‘Lower Knob’ is see manual pages 4 and 5.

Click on the Downloads link at the top of this page. On the following page select HX Edit from the drop down menu in the software (middle) field. Hit the Go button to the right of the three selectable fields. On the following page, scroll down through all the information (several pages) until you see the blue Get Download button. Click on it. The file you download is an installer file. Run it to install the HX Edit program as well as other components. Select to install all components. After installing, connect your Helix device to your computer via USB and run the newly installed HX Edit program. Then follow the instructions provided by the program.

I am not getting that error. I’m using an iPad and Safari. What OS and browser are you using? Can you try another?

That means there is not sufficient DSP available to add these very DSP-heavy FX. To maximize your DSP make sure you are using both Paths 1 and 2. If you’re already doing that you will need to remove (not just turn off) other FX blocks in the preset until you see that these are not greyed out.

Yes, I guess it’s a 50% DSP thing rather than a single/dual chip thing. Thanks for the explanation.

Perhaps the vids were made with older firmware and the “E” appeared in later firmware? Perhaps it only appears in one of the Views and not others? Perhaps..... (insert explanation of your choice here)...... What you’re seeing is simply the way it works now. It’s not a bug and there’s nothing you can do about it. You’ll feel better if you simply stop letting it bug you.Try not to be too CDO about it (I prefer the letters in alphabetical order). Personally I’ve already spent too much time on this. Good luck in getting over it. :-)

I'm not sure either. It's normal. As described earlier you have changed the preset by switching snapshots. Can you show us an example of this not happening to others?

That’s strange. The default amp model vs. your favourites version should use the same amount of DSP, meaning neither or both should be greyed out. Is it possible that your favourites version (greyed out) is the amp+cab model while the available model (not greyed out) is amp only?

If by ‘the first time’ you mean the attempt using HX Edit, that suggests an Internet or USB connection issue. HX Edit downloads the firmware file from the internet while (simultaneously?) updating using Line 6 Updater in what appears to the user to be a single uninterrupted operation. If this is failing, while the manual processing of separating these two activities succeeds, it points to a connectivity or USB issue. Try a different (non-hub) USB port in case the USB connection is timing out while HX Edit downloads the firmware file. Also (somewhat risky) try temporarily disabling your anti-virus utility while updating via HX Edit.

I suspect you pressed the Up and Down switches simultaneously. This engages Snapshot Mode. Do it again to change back to your previous mode. This, and much more, is clearly described in the manual. It’s worth reading.

Try one of the device reset procedures listed here: Some of these procedures will reset your Global Settings and/or IRs/presets. Since your device is not starting up at the moment you have no opportunity to make a backup. Hopefully you have recently made a system backup (e.g when you updated to v3.01) so once you get it started up again you can restore whatever portions of the backup that you need. Start with the least destructive reset options. As a last resort, start in Update mode and use the Line 6 Updater program to reinstall the firmware.

Personally I agree with you. But Line 6 implemented this so it appears there were enough users requesting it on Ideascale to warrant it. Which means lots of users are willing to sacrifice 50% of the DSP in their presets to be able to have true preset spillover. Go figure. Fortunately those of us who don’t want to use this don’t have to! Nothing wrong with an advantage for some that doesn’t disadvantage others.

As of firmware 3.0 Helix does support true spillover between presets - but only if each preset uses only one signal Path. That’s because it dedicates one of its 2 DSP chips (paths) to each preset. So, yes, preset spillover is directly tied to number of DSP chips. The POD Go device likely will, in the next firmware update, get some of the new goodies in Helix firmware v3.0. Preset spillover will not be among them because of the single chip limitation.